Guidance

Gastrointestinal infections: guidance for public health management

Guidance to help professionals in public health and environmental health departments to minimise the risk of transmission of gastrointestinal infections.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 31 January 2020

Documents

Gastrointestinal infections: recommendations for public health management 2019

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: GW-1020

PDF, 1.2 MB, 85 pages

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Details

This guidance provides advice on:

• preventing the spread of gastrointestinal infections
• how specific diseases are spread
• risk groups for spread of infections
• how long to keep people away from school, work or other settings
• how to take stool samples
• links to notifiable diseases and health protection regulations

Published 31 January 2020